EuroWire January 2019

Dies, cones and die maintenance Feature

Dies, cones and die maintenance

Industry has its lingua franca and basic vocabulary. An inch is an inch – and a good thing, too. For those present-day Franks who prefer millimetres, conversion is the matter of a moment. Mutual understanding is assured. But dies for wire making – customised, uniquely matched to a product with an almost incredible workload relative to its weight and mass – call for reassurance. We want a die shop to tell us it is capable of programming full CAD-CAM 3D surface modelling and CNC automation; that its expertise extends to closed die sinking, hammer dies, press dies, cold

form dies, trim dies and progressive dies through the latest revisions of SmartCAM, AutoCAD and Anvil software. Here, the more pro-speak, the better. The providers of the goods and services profiled in this section of EuroWire are proficient in a language that would render speechless any time-travelling die makers from a century ago. But both sets of professionals would readily grasp, and heartily endorse, this fromThe International Library of Technology (Copyright 1903): “Laying out the die is a matter that requires a great deal of judgement.”

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